Back to the original post; ...I figure we came away from the party with at least something to show for our bitchin' - certainly more than we had two days ago, when Big Boy had the whole 5 billion.
Ergo, I'm not angry with S. Harper for cutting this deal with Dubbya; I think he did about as well as he could have and a whole hell of a lot better than Jean C. could/would do.
Gotta ditto John G on this one. 80 cents on the dollar recovery of the world's least enforceable court ruling is amazing to me. Cash the check, boys.
Looks to me like Harper's realpolitik and Emerson's smugly pragmatic walk has beaten Martin's cheapshot talk by 4 billion. Fair? In knife fights and international trade?
kutenay's suggestion of a toll on the Alcan tickles me. That would be fun, and fair (depending on what factors you allow into the fairness equation).
Alas, the only problem in a tit for tat war between Canada and the US is it is a total no win ultimately for Canada.
